Francis Boudreau-Audet | |
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Sumire Suto and Francis Boudreau-Audet in 2017
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Personal information | |
Country represented | Japan |
Born |
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada |
November 8, 1993
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) |
Partner | Sumire Suto |
Former partner | Ami Koga |
Coach | Richard Gauthier, Bruno Marcotte |
Choreographer | Julie Marcotte |
Skating club | CPA Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu |
Training locations | Montreal |
Began skating | 2001 |
ISU personal best scores | |
Combined total | 164.96 2017 Four Continents |
Short program | 61.70 2017 Worlds |
Free skate | 109.20 2016 NHK Trophy |
Francis Boudreau-Audet (born November 8, 1993) is a Canadian pair skater. Competing with Sumire Suto for Japan, he is the 2016 MNNT Cup champion and a two-time Japanese national champion.
Boudreau-Audet began learning to skate in 2001.
His partnership with Japan's Ami Koga lasted two seasons. In December 2013, they were awarded the junior silver medal at the Japan Championships, having finished second to Sumire Suto / Konstantin Chizhikov. Making their international debut, they won silver in junior pairs at the Bavarian Open in February 2014.
Koga/Boudreau-Audet competed in the 2014–15 ISU Junior Grand Prix series, placing 4th in Tallinn and 6th in Zagreb. In March 2015, they finished 6th at the 2015 World Junior Championships in Tallinn. They were coached by Richard Gauthier, Bruno Marcotte, Cynthia Lemaire, and Sylvie Fullum in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Boudreau-Audet teamed up with Japan's Sumire Suto in the spring of 2015. They decided to represent Japan in senior pairs, coached by Richard Gauthier and Bruno Marcotte in Montreal, Canada. Their international debut came in December 2015 at the Golden Spin of Zagreb, where they placed 7th. Later that month, they won the Japanese national title, ahead of Marin Ono / Wesley Killing and Miu Suzaki / Ryuichi Kihara.